NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Thebestselling author of Morning Star returns to the Red Rising universe with the thrilling sequel to Iron Gold.
“Brown’s plots are like a depth charge of nitromethane dropped in a bucket of gasoline. His pacing is 100% him standing over it all with a lit match and a smile, waiting for us to dare him to drop it.”—NPR (Best Books of the Year)
He broke the chains. Then he broke the world….
A decade ago Darrow led a revolution, and laid the foundations for a new world. Now he’s an outlaw.
Cast out of the very Republic he founded, with half his fleet destroyed, he wages a rogue war on Mercury. Outnumbered and outgunned, is he still the hero who broke the chains? Or will he become the very evil he fought to destroy?
In his darkening shadow, a new hero rises.
Lysander au Lune, the displaced heir to the old empire, has returned to bridge the divide between the Golds of the Rim and Core. If united, their combined might may prove fatal to the fledgling Republic.
On Luna, the embattled Sovereign of the Republic, Virginia au Augustus, fights to preserve her precious demokracy and her exiled husband. But one may cost her the other, and her son is not yet returned.
Abducted by enemy agents, Pax au Augustus must trust in a Gray thief, Ephraim, for his salvation.
Far across the void, Lyria, a Red refugee accused of treason, makes a desperate bid for freedom with the help of two unlikely new allies.
Fear dims the hopes of the Rising, and as power is seized, lost, and reclaimed, the worlds spin on and on toward a new Dark Age.
Don’t miss any of Pierce Brown’s Red Rising Saga: RED RISING • GOLDEN SON • MORNING STAR • IRON GOLD • DARK AGE • LIGHT BRINGER
Beware: this book is depressing. Amazing, but depressing. I had a love/hate relationship with it and now that it’s over I kinda feel abandoned. So many contrasting feelings! I still like the first trilogy the most, but I’m glad I can continue on reading about this world (and all of my dying favorite characters!)
Let's see how unlucky I am in choosing my favorite characters, shall we?
- Red Rising: Pax dies, but Sevro lives so I felt kind of ok. - Golden son: the only time I liked Darrow he... survives, but he's buried alive so not an ideal fate. Victra is shot in the back twice and captured. Sevro still lives - Morining Star: Ragnar dies the saddest death. Sevro miracolously survives after being thought dead. Victra is awesome. Cassius is stripped of everything and he's esiliated - Iron Gold: Cassius is left for dead after his "son" betrays his ideals. (sorry, I didn't liked Sevro and Victra in this one as much) - Dark Age: Alexandar is left for dead... then he's not but he's been mutilated ... and then he dies for real. Thraxa is ...well, not dead at least. Cassius is alive though, so yay...
You can see that if you like the same characters as me, chances are they're gonna die horribly. Sorry!
